The TN state government’s Information Technology department has now resorted to Bharat Operating System Solution (BOSS)- A Linux based OS, bidding farewell to Windows. The move has come after a request from the Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
A government order was released in this regard on 9 November, which said that the IT department would use BOSS, a free and open source computer operating system. BOSS has been developed by the National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Soft-ware of India. All the computer systems in the department will run on BOSS from Nov. 14th, 2011.
The Government of India is endorsing for adoption and implementation of BOSS on a national scale.” BOSS is available in almost all Indian languages. Babu also emphasised on the advantage of BOSS saying that apart from being open source, it does not crash easily. The state government has also installed BOSS in the laptops being distributed free to the students. The other state departments are also likely to follow the footsteps of IT department in this regard soon.
(Courtesy: EFY Times)
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